19 days before their self-imposed deadline they go with a 3rd party. They could have done that months ago on all their products and shipped everything to everyone.
Buuuut.... they didn't.
That would not have helped them to persuade their victims to transfer their orders to their new vaporware product. Transfers which btw are non-transferable.
If BFL is not producing more hashes than they claim they are and mining it, then why all the deceptions, trickery, & obfuscations? Why destroy your own reputation without apparent gain? Why are their low end product lines so far ahead of their "premium" product lines? Why after so much hassle and confusion did they simply abandon their 1/3 shipping plan?